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consonant manner agreement
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In English to me the only terms where gender really ends up being a problem are - man terms like mailman , where degendering then requires either using - person , which sounds awkward (I have never heard anyone actually say mailperson ), or using an entirely different term such as letter carrier . ...

I wouldn't say that archaeogenetics is pseudoscience as, for instance, astrology or ufology are, Humans are generally shitty at making that assesment even if they have the relevent related qualification and years of experience; That said i'm facinated by Both ufology and Archeogenetics; (Offtopic I...

this is a bizzare conversation to read.

how do these "liberals" differentiate from "actual facsists"? Even I can't quite unravel the differentiation one means to make since even listening to sources that proport to describe what real facsism is what they are describing is exactly what the liberal governments impose on ...

The Good thought language. Words obscure and cloud meaning therefore their is no derivational or complex morphology, so that words may not lie this is totally logical and not a refference to obscurantist giberish from suppoesdly from the 16th century. –– phonotactic rules are as follows the followin...

:lol: let me introduce you zu Deutsch. How so? German doesn't distinguish animacy or forbid inanimates from appearing in agent roles as far as I know. that wasn't my point, my point was rather that german would seam to fit the type of criteria you want consistently better manner[all be it not in a ...

But where is the problem here? Just don't allow sentences like that - your conlang doesn't have to perfectly calque English. The same meaning can be perfectly well expressed with a univalent verb and an oblique. Or by a bivalent intransitive. Or, indeed, without any verb at all. There's no reason y...

I don't think their is a single answer and frankly capitalism doesn't need to adapt,
ultimately it just needs to successfully convince people that the rhetorical trick of "I just don't care" is convincing enough.

What is a "skin group"? It appears to be the Australian Aboriginal English term for the kinship system generally called "moieties". a moiety is devides everything in twain, skin group aboriginee term usually devides things into four. Addendum: after looking it up i'm more confus...

I've seen supposedly scientific ones, magical thinking presented in the form of bizzare psychobabble.
that makes me just want to .

Any Advice on making one?

Pedant wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 4:35 pm

FlamyobatRudki wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 4:27 pm Yawnnn......... Sound inventory is so tiny.... compared to what I was expecting.

I never said particularly large, just terrifying...

i don't know how to answer this

Yawnnn......... Sound inventory is so tinny.... compared to what i was expecting.

Nah their secretely ellected the 大那尕[Grand Nagas] of the Chinese West Indies Trading Company,

bradrn wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 6:23 pm

FlamyobatRudki wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 8:53 am

masako wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:21 am Rotokas is a jokelang made to fool outsiders and their real language is more akin to Ubykh.

xD This gives me an idea!

Could you elaborate?

Basically exactly what you described.

masako wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2019 5:21 am Rotokas is a jokelang made to fool outsiders and their real language is more akin to Ubykh.

xD This gives me an idea!

forgetting politeness level in japanese would be a good way to be rude right?
and aren't these just examples of being 'rude'[by western definition of rude] in japanese?